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Michael Bykovski is Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer, IT Consultant and Photographer.
Computerra GmbH · Technical Lead
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Backend systems, data platforms and web applications: from architecture to deployment. As Technical Lead at Computerra I lead, mentor and hire the engineering team; as a consultant I work with clients across Rhein-Main.
- Role
- Technical Lead @ Computerra
- Career
- AOE · Scholz & Volkmer · //SEIBERT/MEDIA
- Leadership
- Mentoring · Hiring · Agile · Stakeholders
- Teaching
- Lecturer in Web Engineering, Hochschule RheinMain
- Open Source
- github.com/bykof
- Second craft
- Photography
Stack
01AI & AgentsClaude Code (agentic engineering, daily driver) · Agentic flows & MCP servers · LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI) · Ollama, vLLM
02Machine LearningPyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · NLP · Computer vision · MLflow, Kubeflow (MLOps) · Model serving · Embeddings & vector DBs (Qdrant, pgvector, Weaviate)
03LanguagesPython (FastAPI, Django, numpy, pandas) · JS/TS (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Nest.js, Payload CMS, Express) · Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot, JPA, Spring Security) · Go (Gin) · PHP (Laravel, Symfony, WordPress)
04TestingUnit & integration: Jest, Vitest, JUnit, pytest, Testify, Mockito, Testcontainers · E2E: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium · BDD: Cucumber · Contract: Pact · Load: k6, JMeter · UI: Testing Library, Storybook
05KubernetesKubernetes · Helm · Kustomize · Operators & CRDs · ArgoCD · Flux · Linkerd · Docker · Ansible · GitLab CI/CD · Jenkins · AWS, GCP, Azure · Hetzner
06SecurityOAuth2, OIDC, Keycloak, JWT · Vault, SOPS, sealed-secrets · TLS & PKI · Trivy, Falco, NetworkPolicies · LDAP, Active Directory
07NetworkOPNsense · pfSense · WireGuard · OpenVPN · nginx · Traefik · Caddy · VLANs, routing & firewall rules
08DataPostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis · Streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ · Operations: replication & sharding, query optimization & index design · Migrations: Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic · Data engineering: Airflow, dbt, Spark
09ArchitectureMicroservices & event-driven · Event sourcing, CQRS · Idempotency · Domain-Driven Design · Monolith modernization · Multi-region, HA & disaster recovery · REST, GraphQL, gRPC
10Embedded & IoTArduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi · I²C, SPI, UART, Modbus · MQTT · Home Assistant, Zigbee, sensors
11Mobile & DesktopReact Native, Flutter · Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift) · Electron, Qt
12ObservabilityPrometheus · Grafana · Loki · ELK · OpenTelemetry · Sentry
13Methods & LeadershipScrum & Kanban · Team leadership & mentoring · Jira, Confluence
Work
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Photography
Second craft, same eye for structure. View all photos →
Contact
A project, consulting or an architecture review in Rhein-Main? Get in touch.
Channels
- michael@bykovski.de
- GitHub
- github.com/bykof
- @bykof